I’m a YIMBY. I think we need to build a shit load of apartments. I don’t care whether it’s state-owned or private. If we wanted to build a shit ton of public housing, we’d need to implement YIMBY policies anyway.
I don’t really know if Marxism is relevant here, but I see bourgeois NIMBY homeowners trying to keep property values high at the expense of everyone else as a common enemy everyone needs to fight against.
my interpretation of ‘i don’t care’ is that you would be satisfied with a bullshit private contract rather than lobby for it being implemented in a better way, but i guess some YIMBY thought could be a strain of lesser evil/critical support
The worst case scenario for private development (imo) is pencil towers with limited numbers of units, all extremely expensive, or auto-oriented suburban sprawl.
There need to be caveats, of course. I’m not interested in anything that would actually worsen conditions.